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World Championships Camp Boats Named

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Ed Moran, ed@usrowing.org | Jul 28, 2014

With the final competition to determine the last four crews to compete at the 2014 World Rowing Championships set for next week, USRowing is pleased to announce the names of the athletes selected to the team from men’s and women’s training camps.

PRINCETON, N.J. – With the final competition to determine the last four crews to compete at the 2014 World Rowing Championships set for next week, USRowing is pleased to announce the names of the athletes selected to the team from the men’s and women’s training camps to compete in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

In addition to the boats named in camp, four crews have officially accepted their nominations to the team after top performances at the second world cup on Lake Aiguebelette, France, including the women’s single sculls, the women’s double sculls, the women’s pair and the lightweight men’s double sculls.

Accepting nominations to the team in the woman’s double after taking silver in France were Ellen Tomek (Flushing, Mich.) and Meghan O’Leary (Baton Rouge, La.). Accepting nominations to the team in the women’s pair after a silver medal performance at world cup II was Kerry Simmonds (San Diego, Calif.) and Megan Kalmoe (St. Croix Falls, Wis.).

Accepting nominations with a fourth place finish were Josh Konieczny (Millbury, Ohio) and Austin Meyer (Cohoes, N.Y.) and accepting her nomination in the women’s single after finishing fifth on Lake Aiguebelette was Gevvie Stone (Newton, Mass.).

Among the 80 athletes named from the camps, through world cup competition or the 2014 Senior 1 World Championship Trials, 19 are former Olympians, Olympic spares or Paralympians, 30 have been on prior senior world championship teams, seven competed on U.S. under 23 teams and 24 are new to the U.S. national team.

Beginning Monday on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J., the four remaining crews will be selected following racing in their respective events at the Senior World Championship Trials II. The featured events are the men’s single sculls, the men’s double sculls, the men’s pair and the lightweight women’s double sculls.

Eleven crews have already been named to the team following Senior 1 World Championship Trials, including the lightweight men’s and women’s single sculls, the men’s quadruple sculls, the lightweight men’s and women’s quadruple sculls, the men’s pair with coxswain, the lightweight men’s pair and the lightweight men’s eight.

In the para-rowing events, crews earned berths to the team during trials including the men’s and women’s arms and shoulders single sculls, the trunk and arms mixed double, and the legs, trunk and arms mixed double. In addition, the legs, trunk and arms four with coxswain was selected from the para-rowing camp.

Earning places on the squad at trials in the men’s and women’s lightweight single sculls were Andrew Campbell, Jr. (New Canaan, Conn.) and Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.).

Also named to the team in trials were Jack Carlson (Weston, Mass.), Taylor Brown (Winter Park, Fla.) and Henry Hoffstot (Ligonier, Pa.) in the men’s pair with coxswain; Michael Wales (Seattle, Wash.) and Tyler Nase (Phoenixville, Pa.) in the lightweight men’s pair.

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